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Okay, I'm just going to say this once, and get it overwith, because every damn time I read Bruce Sterling's blog, I feel the need to let this out.

Why the fsck does one of the most interesting thinkers out there have the LEAST READABLE BLOG ON THE NET!?!?

I'm serious. None of his URLs are actual links. His own thoughts are encased in (((multiple parentheses))), as if that makes it easier to sort his words from others', and the whole thing reads like a dumb text braindump of his research material. And doesn't he just love throwing in giant digital camera pics and screenshots that just slide right on over the right-hand margins.

And that's if you're looking at the version hosted at Wired. If you're reading it via RSS on, say, Bloglines, you are hopelessly screwed, since all those huge images just mean that you end up with paragraphs two feet wide.

Man, the guy is brilliant. And I'm on board with the idea of a blog that' sjust a braindump of what he's thinking/reading at the moment. But Cheeeee-RAAHST it's so much god damn work just trying to read this thing.

(Chris pauses to bang his head on the table.)

And I have yet to see an explanation as to why it is this way. I get it when Warren Ellis writes from his mobile, or when Marc Cuban just can't friggin' type. But Sterling's a writer for crying out loud, so we know he can type, and he's publishing this stuff in Wired, which ought to be the most bleeding edge tech-savvy rag on the planet, next to 2600.

So, Bruce, WTF is the problem?! EH?

Okay. I'm done.